World Product Day
Attend one of Mind the Product’s global events to learn how your business and others affect the economy, and how you can do so beneficially.
Position your product management expertise and solutions to a global community of 200+ cities seeking to understand product impact on the economy.
- Host a local ProductTank meetup to showcase how your product/service solves real business challenges
- Create thought-leadership content on how product strategy drives economic value and business growth
- Partner with Mind the Product to sponsor a World Product Day event in key markets and reach decision-makers
- Launch a social campaign highlighting customer stories of product impact and business transformation
World Product Day started as a way to celebrate the anniversary of Mind the Product, a company that works towards bringing people together to share their experiences selling, manufacturing, and developing products. According to their website, began in 2010 in London and has since been managing informal meetup events all over the world in over 140 cities.
Mind the Product aims to help raise awareness of how product management impacts the global economy. Since 2018, when World Product Day began, Mind the Product has been working towards bringing the concept of products into the discussion on a larger scale.
Mind the Product is the biggest produce management community in the world. The community holds regular local ProductTank meet-ups in more than 200 cities across the globe. They also host conferences, workshops, and training events. Annual events occur in places such as Hamburg, Singapore, San Francisco, and London. They are considered the go-to events for meeting other product developers, designers, and product managers, and honing your product craft.
Mind the Product hopes to curate the best on the web by providing insight into product developers’ experiences through their blog and hosting worldwide events. With World Product Day, these events become even more special by live-streaming their events, hashtagging, and connecting people all over the world who want to join the discussion about products and what the future looks like in the global economy.
Mind the Product also helps people who are curious about the global economy learn more about what products and businesses that work in the product industry do for a living. So, if you’re interested in understanding how products affect the work industry, then take part in the holiday known as World Product Day!
Attend a World Product Day Event
Attend a hosted event at one of Mind the Product’s 140 city locations! By attending one of their various events, you’ll be able to learn more about how your business and other businesses affect the economy on a daily basis and understand what it means to be an active member of the global economy.
Share on Social Media
If you’re unable to attend, then hashtag the day on social media and join the even through their live streams. By being proactive in the economy, you can be conscientious about how businesses affect your life daily and make smarter decisions about how you buy products.
Host an Event
If you are unable to attend one of the events that are being hosted, why not host your own event instead? You could gather a few close friends, co-workers, and/or family members together, and you can enjoy good food and wine while you talk about different products and how they have influenced your life. You could ask one guest to bring a product with them, and to talk about why this product is important to them and how it has had an influence on their day-to-day life. Each person can also bring a bit of information about the history of the product and how it was brought to the market. There are some really great stories out there, and so you can be sure that you will have an interesting night ahead. Of course, there are also going to be a lot of online events happening to mark World Product Day, so it is worth looking into these as well!
Create Your Own Product
Another idea for World Product Day is to have a go at creating your own product. Whether it fails or succeeds, you will get an understanding of everything that goes into making a product and bringing it to market. You will need to consider your target audience and the sort of product you are going to create. You can then outline the content of the product in a letter. Put out some feelers online and see whether or not this is the sort of product that people would be interested in. If you’re interested in really bringing this product to the market, you will need to make sure you do in-depth research regarding the competition, as well as developing a prototype solution and testing it with consumers. It is a long and difficult process, but it can certainly be worth it in the end.
Do Some Product Research
You can also dedicate World Product Day to educating yourself about products. After all, it does not matter whether you’re in the business of making and distributing products or not, there is so much that can be learned about this sector. You can have a lot of fun discovering how your favorite products are made, delving into stories about distribution, and finding out about the inspiration behind some of the most successful products around the world. In fact, you can even read up about some product flops as well. Even companies like Apple and Microsoft have fallen on their face when it comes to the likes of the Apple Newton and Microsoft Bob. Some other products that didn’t quite make it include Coors Rocky Mountain Spring Water and New Coke! It shows you just how difficult it can be to get it right when it comes to creating a successful product. World Product Day Timeline1931 Neil McElroy’s Procter & Gamble memo P&G executive Neil H. McElroy writes a famous memo describing “brand men,” often cited as the origin of modern brand and product management, assigning individuals full responsibility for a product’s performance and strategy.1939 Founding of Hewlett‑Packard and product-focused culture Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard established Hewlett‑Packard, pioneering a decentralized, product-line structure that gives managers wide authority over product strategy, engineering, and profitability, influencing later technology product management practices.1986 Introduction of Stage‑Gate product development G. Cooper publishes early work that becomes the Stage‑Gate process, formalizing phased product development with go / kill decisions at each stage and shaping how many companies manage new product pipelines.1991 “Crossing the Chasm” reframes tech product strategy Geoffrey Moore’s book “Crossing the Chasm” articulates how technology products must target specific market segments to move from early adopters to the mainstream, deeply influencing product marketing and product management in the tech industry.[1]2001 Agile Manifesto accelerates iterative product development Seventeen software practitioners published the Agile Manifesto, promoting iterative delivery, customer collaboration, and responsiveness to change, which rapidly became a cornerstone mindset for modern digital product management.2008 Lean Startup links experimentation to product decisions Eric Ries begins articulating the Lean Startup approach, popularized in his 2011 book, emphasizing minimum viable products, validated learning, and rapid experimentation, reshaping how product teams test ideas and reduce risk.[1]2010 “Inspired” helps define the modern product manager role Marty Cagan’s book “Inspired: How To Create Products Customers Love” synthesizes Silicon Valley best practices and gives one of the clearest early descriptions of the responsibilities and mindset of modern software product managers.
Neil McElroy’s Procter & Gamble memo
P&G executive Neil H. McElroy writes a famous memo describing “brand men,” often cited as the origin of modern brand and product management, assigning individuals full responsibility for a product’s performance and strategy.
Founding of Hewlett‑Packard and product-focused culture
Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard established Hewlett‑Packard, pioneering a decentralized, product-line structure that gives managers wide authority over product strategy, engineering, and profitability, influencing later technology product management practices.
Introduction of Stage‑Gate product development
G. Cooper publishes early work that becomes the Stage‑Gate process, formalizing phased product development with go / kill decisions at each stage and shaping how many companies manage new product pipelines.
“Crossing the Chasm” reframes tech product strategy
Geoffrey Moore’s book “Crossing the Chasm” articulates how technology products must target specific market segments to move from early adopters to the mainstream, deeply influencing product marketing and product management in the tech industry. [1]
Agile Manifesto accelerates iterative product development
Seventeen software practitioners published the Agile Manifesto, promoting iterative delivery, customer collaboration, and responsiveness to change, which rapidly became a cornerstone mindset for modern digital product management.
Lean Startup links experimentation to product decisions
Eric Ries begins articulating the Lean Startup approach, popularized in his 2011 book, emphasizing minimum viable products, validated learning, and rapid experimentation, reshaping how product teams test ideas and reduce risk. [1]
“Inspired” helps define the modern product manager role
Marty Cagan’s book “Inspired: How To Create Products Customers Love” synthesizes Silicon Valley best practices and gives one of the clearest early descriptions of the responsibilities and mindset of modern software product managers.